Fall to Pieces

Summary: "Teach me to feel..." those softly spoken words shook her to the core. Staring at the boy in front of her, Kagome took in the sight of blood soaking the tiles at the entrance of the front door of her apartment...as if to warn her of the danger that had been let into her home.

Anime/Manga: MARS/InuYasha

Pairing: Kagome/Masao

Genre: Romance (DARK)/Angst

Rated: M for Mature Content

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Kagome smiled sadly as she took in the sight of the old well shed. Sitting unused in the shadows of the Goshinboku Tree; now eighteen, three years had passed since her adventures down the well, and the sealing of the well. Flashes of her past assaulted her like knives carving at her soul, each memory a deeper cut.

"K-Kagome?!"

Turning around, at the corner of the Sunset Shrine stood her mother, "It's been awhile."

"...it's been almost a year since your last letter...how is school? Are you okay on your own? You don't call anymore...you don't visit...or write..."

Kagome looked down at her shoes, her fists clenched in a vicelike grip as she tried to ignore the tears streaming down her mother's cheeks. "I came to see how you were doing...I'm sorry for not getting in contact with you before now."

"Is that really all that you came here for. To see how I have been holding op since you left for Seien?"

"Mom...I needed space...I wanted to get away from..." Kagome's eyes drifted towards the well shed. "...the past. I'm sorry if that meant not keeping in touch, but I did what I needed to do to heal."

"...lets go inside,"

Watching her mother turn away from her, Kagome was almost tempted to turn away herself and return back to her apartment. She wasn't entirely sure if returning back to the Shrine was the best idea, but she was here now, so she would do what she came to do and say what she came to say, then leave.

Stepping inside, her brother came walking down stairs only to stop and stare ahead in surprise. "...what are you doing here?!"

Kagome frowned, "Should I leave?"

"Yes...yes, leave! You haven't called or written in a year, what difference should it make to us if you don't come to visit?"

"..."

"Souta, go make some tea. Your sister and I need to talk."

Souta shook his head, "whatever, fine."

Kagome sat down in the living room across from her mother, her hands in her lap as she played with a silver ring on her middle finger.

"Where did you get that from?"

Kagome lifted her hand, staring at the ring, it was a half an inch in width, with crosses cut out of the metal in a pattern of small, large, small crosses. "...it was a gift from a friend...well, not really a gift, he just didn't want it anymore."

"I see. Kagome, don't take Souta's words to heart. He just missed you and for the longest time, he would check the mail for a letter, so sure that you would write...but you never did. He just lost hope...and then to see you a year later...after having not heard from you..."

"I understand...I came to gather my things from my room, actually...honestly, I was scared to come back."

"What do you mean...'gather your things'?"

"I have my own apartment, it's a two bedroom, two bathrooms; nice sized. While I was living in the dorm rooms at Seien...I got a part time job at a Café down the street. I kept up my grades of course, even took some late night classes for math to keep ahead of my classmates. The money I earned went towards my down payment to the apartment that I'm staying at now, and I have enough saved up for my next four payments, and groceries, of course. I have one year left of school, and then I'll be on my own...I'm preparing myself for that...I was going to pack up my stuff, a movers truck will be stopping by to pick up the boxes tomorrow."

"...so that's it? 'Thanks mom for standing by me during my adventures down the well, lying to my teachers for me and cleaning my wounds and injuries...but I'm moving out and you'll never see me again'? Is that really all that you came here for Kagome?!"

"What do you want from me?" Kagome asked irascibly, closing her eyes as she listened to her brothers footsteps enter the room. "I don't want any more reminders of my past, I want to forget it...all of it! If that means removing my-self from you, Souta and this Shrine...then so be it. I'll be upstairs packing if you need me..."

Souta and Rai watched Kagome leave the living room and head upstairs to her bedroom.

"...just let her be...the sooner she's gone, the sooner I can forget I ever had a sister."

Souta placed the cups of tea down without much care, watching the liquid spill out of the spout of the kettle before walking out of the house, grabbing his soccer ball along the way.

"...what did I do wrong...Kagome..."

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Me: First chapter is up! I actually read MARS back when I was thirteen, and I reread it recently, and wanted to write a fanfic based off of it. Now, I am a huge fan of Kira/Rei, so I couldn't put Kagome with Rei, which would kill me, so I chose to undertake a different angle and went in the direction of a new challenge! Tell me what you guys think, Nyan~!